WABT(1)                     General Commands Manual                    WABT(1)

NAME
     wat2wasm - translate from WebAssembly text format to the WebAssembly
     binary format

SYNOPSIS
     wat2wasm [options] file

DESCRIPTION
     wat2wasm Read a file in the wasm text format, check it for errors, and
     convert it to the wasm binary format.

     The options are as follows:

     --help  Print this help message

     --version
             Print version information

     -v, --verbose
             Use multiple times for more info

     --debug-parser
             Turn on debugging the parser of wat files

     -d, --dump-module
             Print a hexdump of the module to stdout

     --enable-exceptions
             Enable Experimental exception handling

     --disable-mutable-globals
             Disable Import/export mutable globals

     --disable-saturating-float-to-int
             Disable Saturating float-to-int operators

     --disable-sign-extension
             Disable Sign-extension operators

     --disable-simd
             Disable SIMD support

     --enable-threads
             Enable Threading support

     --enable-function-references
             Enable Typed function references

     --disable-multi-value
             Disable Multi-value

     --enable-tail-call
             Enable Tail-call support

     --disable-bulk-memory
             Disable Bulk-memory operations

     --disable-reference-types
             Disable Reference types (externref)

     --enable-annotations
             Enable Custom annotation syntax

     --enable-code-metadata
             Enable Code metadata

     --enable-gc
             Enable Garbage collection

     --enable-memory64
             Enable 64-bit memory

     --enable-multi-memory
             Enable Multi-memory

     --enable-extended-const
             Enable Extended constant expressions

     --enable-all
             Enable all features

     -o, --output=FILE
             Output wasm binary file. Use "-" to write to stdout.

     -r, --relocatable
             Create a relocatable wasm binary (suitable for linking with e.g.
             lld)

     --no-canonicalize-leb128s
             Write all LEB128 sizes as 5-bytes instead of their minimal size

     --debug-names
             Write debug names to the generated binary file

     --no-check
             Don't check for invalid modules

EXAMPLES
     Parse test.wat and write to .wasm binary file with the same name

           $ wat2wasm test.wat

     Parse test.wat and write to binary file test.wasm

           $ wat2wasm test.wat -o test.wasm

     Parse spec-test.wast, and write verbose output to stdout (including the
     meaning of every byte)

           $ wat2wasm spec-test.wast -v

SEE ALSO
     wasm-decompile(1), wasm-interp(1), wasm-objdump(1), wasm-opcodecnt(1),
     wasm-strip(1), wasm-validate(1), wasm2c(1), wasm2wat(1), wast2json(1),
     wat-desugar(1), spectest-interp(1)

BUGS
     If you find a bug, please report it at
     https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/issues.

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